Category: Fer6

  • Mira! El Otro!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 14th Week, Tempus per Annum (C1): Genesis 46:1-7, 28-30 Matthew 10:16-23 Tradet autem frater fratrem in mortem, et pater filium: et insurgent filii in parentes, et morte eos afficient: et eritis odio omnibus propter nomen meum: qui autem perseveraverit usque in finem, hic salvus erit. Brother will hand over…

  • Friendzoned by Jesus.

    +J+M+J+ The Readings for Friday in the 5th week of Easter (C1) Acts 15:22-31 John 15:12-17 I call you friends… This gets sentimentalized sometimes. Sometimes overly so. I remember when Jesus calling us (me) his friends used to cause me to wax poetical about Plato, David and Jonathan, and about someone important in my life.…

  • The New Wine Fallacy

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 22nd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 Luke 5:33-39 Vetus melius est.Old is better. Jesus’ saying about old and new wine skins gets abused a lot. It often gets turned into an excuse for percussion sets in Mass. I’ve heard it used in presenting new teachings…

  • Meanwhile, on the Gridiron.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of St Laurence 2 Corinthians 9:6-10 John 12:24-26 Qui amat animam suam, perdet eam; et qui odit animam suam in hoc mundo, in vitam aeternam custodit eam. Ὁ φιλῶν τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἀπολλύει αὐτήν · καὶ ὁ μισῶν τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ τούτῳ εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον…

  • Is there someone else we can talk to?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 19:9A, 11-16 Matthew 5:27-32 Audistis quia dictum est antiquis… Ego autem dico vobis…  You have heard it said of old…  But I say to you… If you come to the New Testament looking for a relief from those pesky rules in…

  • Preternatural Hangries

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 8th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Memorial of St Justin Martyr, First Friday of June 1 Peter 4:7-13  Mark 11:11-26 Jam non amplius in aeternum ex te fructum quisquam manducet. May no man hereafter eat fruit of thee any more for ever. Jesus curses the fig tree because it…

  • Who is gonna keep you outta glory?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 5:9-12  Mark 10:1-12 Nolite ingemiscere, fratres, in alterutrum, ut non judicemini. Ecce judex ante januam assistit.Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door. I heard a sermon earlier this week that…

  • No. Boys always say, “I love you *too*”

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 25:13b-21  John 21:15-19 Dicit ei tertio : Simon Joannis, amas me? Contristatus est Petrus, quia dixit ei tertio : Amas me? He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved, because he had said…

  • So, about this wall…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 15:22-31 John 15:12-17 Vos autem dixi amicos : quia omnia quaecumque audivi a Patre meo, nota feci vobis. I have called you friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. One thing I often…

  • When the heart is ready the teacher will come.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 2nd Week of Easter (B2) Acts 5:34-42  John 6:1-15 Surgens autem quidam in concilio pharisaeus, nomine Gamaliel, legisdoctor, honorabilis universae plebi, jussit foras ad breve homines fieri, dixitque ad illos…But one in the council rising up, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, respected by…

  • His Ways are Very Different

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2)  Wisdom 2:1A, 12-22 John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 Factus est nobis in traductionem cogitationum nostrarum. Gravis est nobis etiam ad videndum, quoniam dissimilis est aliis vita illius, et immutatae sunt viae ejus.He is become a censurer of our thoughts. He is grievous unto us,…

  • No pain. No gain.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13A, 17B-28A Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46 Dixit ergo Judas fratribus suis : Quid nobis prodest si occiderimus fratrem nostrum, et celaverimus sanguinem ipsius? Melius est ut venundetur Ismaelitis, et manus nostrae non polluantur : frater enim et caro nostra est. Acquieverunt fratres…

  • Nothing so Deep

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 5th Friday of Ordinary Time (B2) I Kings 11:29-32; 12:19 Mark 7:31-37 Et suscipiens in caelum, ingemuit, et ait illi : Ephphetha, quod est, Adaperire. Et statim apertae sunt aures ejus, et solutum est vinculum linguae ejus, et loquebatur recte. And looking up to heaven, he groaned, and said to him:…

  • Perverse and Foolish

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): I Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22A Mark 2:1-12 Non enim te abjecerunt, sed me, ne regnem super eos.For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.God sounds rather downcast here. Give them what they want…Except I think that would…

  • Why We’re Doomed

    Buy Nothing Christmas! ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday 3 Advent (Year 2): 1 Samuel 1:24-28 Luke 1:46-56 Fecit potentiam in brachio suo; Dispersit superbos mente cordis sui. Deposuit potentes de sede,   et exaltavit humiles. Esurientes implevit bonis,   et divites dimisit inanes. He has shown the strength of his arm, and has scattered the proud…